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I know of two groups that do mill the slides. One is the SI group that did one for me some years ago and the other is a former SI employee that has set up shop elsewhere. Both do good work relative to milling slides. The former SI employee that does milling has his contract information on the Paragon Pride forum in case people here want another option other than SI. I just do not like dealing with gunsmithing work via mail and phone.After taking a RDS pistol ccw course with Aaron Cowan of Sage Dynamics, I understand the benefits of shooting/carrying with a RDS like the RMR. Throughout the class we discussed the potential issues of having a red dot pistol, which are similar to any electric optic pistol or rifle, but also looked at ways of preventing the issues and working thru the problems should they arise. Highly recommend his course by the way. Shooting with the dot takes practice and is certianly a learned skill like any other but the reward is fast and accurate shooting.
The issue of having your gun drawn while LEO shows up needs to be rehearsed before ever getting into or being forced into such a conflict, but that's another thread topic.
As far as local slide milling, I'm not sure of anyone who does it "in house", most are shipped to a few reputable smiths for cutting and finishing.
Relative to the responding LEOs and your gun being seen, even if you use the sul position to hide your pistol, you can get killed. My solution is to draw the gun only when forced to shoot and quickly re-holstering and get the heck away.
I regularly shoot red dot equipped target pistols. With an iron sighted co-witness pistol, for me a training course is not needed and I have had no problem with shooting with the RMR. Thing is my RMR died and I have not gotten around to getting reset up with a new one.
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